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Y deſign in this Argument is, from the conſideration of the Nature of this Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and of the perpetual Uſe of it to the end of the world, to awaken men to a ſenſe of their Duty, and the great obligation which lyes upon them to the more frequent receiving of it. And there is the need to make men ſenſible of their duty in  particular, becauſe in this laſt Age by the  diſcourſes of ſome, concerning the nature of this Sacrament, and the danger of receiving it unworthily, ſuch doubts and fears have  raiſed in the minds of men as utterly to deterr many, and in a great meaſure to diſcourage  the generality of Chriſtians from the uſe  it; to the great prejudice and danger of mens, and the viſible abatement of piety by the  neglect of ſo excellent a means of our grouth  Improvment in it; and to the mighty ſcandal of our Religion, by the general diſuſe and  of ſo plain and ſolemn an Inſtitution of our bleſſed Lord and Saviour.

Therefore I ſhal take occaſion as briefly & clearly I can to treat of theſe Four points.